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Conversations at a Wartime Café

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Sean Labrador y Manzano is a single father, a poet of postcolonial eroticism, and independent scholar. He believes in poetic justice: that one day soon he can pay all his bills (child support, student loans, credit cards, etc) through writing. In the mean time he ambles from gig to gig to gig. The experience of underemployment compels him to contemplate at wartime cafés (as all cafés are wartime cafés during a time of war) the benefits and contradictions of military reenlistment.

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Conversation 21: What Little Boys Are Made Of Redux (8/12/2010)

Conversation 20: Christmas in July (8/3/2010)

Conversation 19: Recuerdo (7/6/2010)

Conversation 18: Another Cover Letter, Never Sent for its Obvious Humor and Talk Story, for Assistant Professor of English (6/14/2010)

Conversation 17: New Look Army (5/10/2010)

Conversation 16: Jus Sanguinis (5/10/2010)

Conversation 15: Venus Infers: Defining postcolonial eroticism (4/19/2010)

Conversation 14: What Little Boys Are Made Of (3/31/2010)

Conversation 13: CIVILIAN UNDER NAVAL TRAINING (3/11/2010)

Conversation 12: Calla y Calla (2/19/2010)

Conversation 11: The “SUN WILL SET” because “IT’S ALL ABOUT WAR” or “IT’S ALL ABOUT WAR” because the “SUN WILL SET.” (2/1/2010)

Conversation 10: “which serve first to shew how constant.” (1/15/2010)

Conversation 9: Interlocutor (12/14/2009)

Conversation 8: Hollywood Stimulus Package, or Why the Film Industry Benefits from the War (11/20/2009)

Conversation 7: FUBAR (11/13/2009)

Conversation 6: Speculative Fiction (11/5/2009)

Conversation 5: When I Am On the Road, I Will Sing a Silly Animal Abcederian Through the Revolution. SING. SING. SING! (After “Fly Like an Eagle” by the Steve Miller Band.) (10/29/2009)

Conversation 4: Elysium: Where Are We When the Wild Things Are? (10/19/2009)

Conversation 3: Hurray! The California State Legislature Votes: October is Filipino-American History Month (10/12/2009)

Conversation 2: The Virtual Father (10/2/2009)

Conversation 1: To Inbed or Embed? (9/24/2009)

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